ALBION TOWNSHIP, MI-- A 2-yar-old child was seriously injured and his father hurt, too, when the dirt-bike they were riding collided with a 4-wheeler being driven by the child's grandfather.

File photoBoth the boy and his father were taken to the hospital.

According to a news release from the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office, at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday the two off-road vehicles crashed near D. Drive South near Hill Road.

A 47-year-old Albion man driving a 4-wheeler eastbound on D. Drive South collided with his son, a 29-year-old Battle Creek man who was also eastbound on D. Drive South near Hill Road.

The collision caused the younger man to lose control of the dirt bike he was driving; he and his two-year-old son were thrown from the dirt bike.

The 29-year-old man was transported to Oaklawn Hospital for medical attention. The 2-year-old boy was transported to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo with serious injuries.

None of the riders was wearing a helmet.

The accident remains under investigation by the Calhoun County Sheriff Department Accident Reconstruction Team. The names of the individuals involved are being withheld at this time pending potential criminal charges.